US EditionNashville joins lawsuit aiming to halt Trump administration's federal funding freeze
- Nashville joined a lawsuit with five other cities and nearly a dozen nonprofits to challenge the Trump administration's federal funding freeze, affecting grants awarded for local projects under the Inflation Reduction Act and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
- The complaint, filed by the Southern Environmental Law Center and the Public Rights Project, names President Donald Trump and several officials as defendants for allegedly overstepping authority by freezing funds meant for specific municipal projects.
- Metro Director of Law Wally Dietz emphasized that the lawsuit aims to ensure Nashville receives the federal grant funding approved by Congress, which includes $4.7 million for electric vehicle infrastructure and $9.3 million for transit improvements.
- The lawsuit highlights disruptions to essential programs in other cities, such as Baltimore and Madison, which are also reeling from the impact of the federal funding freeze.
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North Charleston nonprofit suing Trump administration over grant funding freeze
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Energy-efficient affordable housing, support for local farmers, air pollution monitoring, and other community-based projects have been left in “limbo” by the Trump administration’s freeze on federal grant funding, according to a new lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed March 19 in the U.S. District Court of South Carolina, challenges the administration’s authority to unilaterally freeze billions of dollars in awards administered…
A national lawsuit against Trump and DOGE filed in Charleston challenges funding freeze
A Charleston-based nonprofit, The Sustainability Institute, is the lead plaintiff on a national lawsuit to stop the Trump Administration’s freeze on federal funding. The lawsuit seeks this funding to be fully restored for 11 nonprofits and 6 U.S. cities.
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